PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture 4: Psych 3AG3 – Lecture 4.docx
22 Oct 2014
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Psych 3ag3 lecture 4: i walked five miles to school , why don"t things still have the same value as they used to, all of their stories reflect the environment in which they lived in their macro environment was different, parents, you. Episodic memory: recall, ex. the ability to remember what the picture was on the beginning of the slides, large age related differences (20 year olds vs. 70 year olds, older adults: Autobiographical memory: episodic details more difficult than semantic details, flashbulb memories, early events remembered better than those occurring in middle adulthood, when some moment in time is preserved with very high memory these tend to occur around very significant events (ex. remembering where you were on 9/11, these flashbulb memories were formed when you are younger, are better remembered than the ones formed later, tend to be retained for a very long period of time.
